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Free lecture at PSU to discuss Japanese perspectives on North Korea, Oct. 11

Author: John Kirkland

Posted: October 4, 2013

Toshimitsu Shigemura, a professor at Waseda University in Tokyo and a renowned scholar of North Korea, will present a free public lecture “A Japanese Perspective on North Korea” at 6 p.m. Friday, Oct. 11, at Portland State University (PSU). It will be held at 328 Smith Memorial Student Union, 1825 SW Broadway.

His lecture will cover:

•U.S. and North Korean nuclear negotiations and “clashes of mutual ignorance of culture,”

•The new leadership in North Korea, and its relationship with China and South Korea,